Speaking to a rich tax collector named Zacchaeus one day, Jesus told him, “the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (See Luke 19:10). Do you really think He meant He had come to seek and save only those who were lost from that day forward? How about all the hundreds of millions who had lived and died on this planet before the birth of Jesus Christ? And how about all those hundreds of millions living even then in China and throughout Asia and the many islands around the globe? Most all of them would live out their lifespans and die before the first Christian missionary or evangelist got to them with the gospel message! The same could be said for their children, and grand children and great grand children! Do you really think God’s plan of salvation is so basically flawed that He somehow over looked these people?
Jesus said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God” (See Luke 18:27). God has it all worked out, friend. He has never been blindsided by anything or anyone at anytime. The angel of the Lord knew what he was talking about when he told the shepherds in the field at the time of Christ’s birth, “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to ALL people!” (See Luke 2:10). And what great and wonderful news it is to know that ALL born human will have their opportunity to join the great eternal spirit family of God. “ALL FLESH shall see the salvation of God” (See Luke 3:6).
Jesus was speaking of a Roman centurion, a pagan Gentile, when He said, “I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!” (See Luke 7:9). What kind of faith would He have found had He ventured into Egypt, or Syria, or Rome? To His people Israel, God had said centuries before, “Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent to you ALL my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers” (See Jeremiah 7:25-26). And to His prophet Ezekiel, God said, “you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel, not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand” and then freely admitted, “Surely, had I sent you to them, THEY WOULD HAVE LISTENED TO YOU!” (See Ezekiel 3:5-6).
Jeremiah saw something clearly. He said, “Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man to direct his own steps” (See Jeremiah 10:23). There is NONE that seeks after God, friend. God must do the seeking. God must command Satan to release his hold on men’s minds so that the glorious light of truth can alter their thinking. God operates on schedule time. He has a time-table by which He will yet give every son and daughter of Adam a grand opportunity to escape Satan’s clutches and enter into a firm, sure and certain relationship with the Creator. And death presents no obstacle to Him in accomplishing what He has declared He will most certainly do for He reminds us “I kill, and I make alive!” (See Deuteronomy 32:39). It was Moses understanding of this great truth that enabled him to carry out God’s orders to the letter when told to utterly destroy “the men, women and children of every city” of the Amorites. (See Deuteronomy 3). He knew that one day God would bring them all back to life in a far different world. Only Jesus Christ can reveal this truth to the human mind. Has He revealed it to you???
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley